Actions from London Perl WorkshopMovable Type Pro 4.382018-02-13T12:13:25Zhttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=feed&_type=actions&blog_id=0&id=4493Posted Videos for London Perl Workshop 2017 to lpwtag:blogs.perl.org,2018:/users/lpw//3050.84852018-02-13T12:13:25Z2018-02-13T12:51:03ZThe organisers of the London Perl Workshop 2017 are very happy to announce that the videos of the talks are now on YouTube. In the rest of this post we'll give a summary of the videos, with links to each...London Perl Workshophttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3050&id=4493
The organisers of the London Perl Workshop 2017 are very happy to announce that
the videos of the talks are now on YouTube.
In the rest of this post we'll give a summary of the videos, with links to each talk.
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For LPW 2017 we decided to spend more money on video production, so that good quality videos of the talks
would be available to the general Perl community.
This involved spending money on cameras, wireless microphones, etc,
and paying Amanda of A Crow Consulting (acrowconsulting@gmail.com) to do post-production.
We'll be doing a separate blog post on that, but please let us know if you think the effort and expenditure
was worthwhile (either in the comments here, or via email to organisers at londonperlworkshop dot org).

We didn't record the separate tutorial track, and sadly we didn't get a recording of Leon Timmermans's talk.

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Posted One day in November to lpwtag:blogs.perl.org,2017:/users/lpw//3050.83372017-11-27T21:42:01Z2017-11-27T21:42:52ZOn Saturday (25th November), the London Perl Workshop (LPW) was held at the University of Westminster. It was a free-to-attend one-day conference that three tracks of talks and one of tutorials. It was also the first in the post-Mark Keating...London Perl Workshophttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3050&id=4493
On Saturday (25th November), the London Perl Workshop (LPW) was held at the University of Westminster. It was a free-to-attend one-day conference that three tracks of talks and one of tutorials. It was also the first in the post-Mark Keating age. This is the report of this year's organising team: Katherine, Lee, Neil, Pete, and Rick.

In brief, the talks went down well and everyone seemed to enjoy themself. Read on for more!

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We had 25 talks in three tracks. They covered a wide range of topics, including GraphQL, GDPR, the Rust programming language, YAML, and a comparison of Go and Perl 6 for concurrent programming. As organisers we didn't get to see many of the talks on the day, but that was ok, because all talks were being recorded, and will gradually turn on up YouTube (we'll let you know as and when). And we're looking forward to them, because we heard so many good reports from attendees!

For the morning coffee break, some of the attendees had volunteered to bake, so we had brownies, cookies, shortbread, flapjacks, muffins, and more. This was a first for LPW, so we had some nerves, but it worked extremely well, and is something we suggest more conferences try as it reinforces the feeling of community, and is a novel way for casual contributions to your event, including people who want to help but aren’t ready to present a talk just yet.

In addition to the regular talks, we had four tutorials: an introduction to Perl; web development in Perl 6 with Bailador; giving your web-site more Google-juice; and web testing with Perl and Selenium. Tutorials are a major commitment and we're guessing (never having given one) that they're more nerve-wracking, for a variety of reasons. We'd also like to thank Dave Cross, who trimmed the length of his tutorial for us twice, to help finesse the schedule.

Following the afternoon coffee break, we all gathered in the large theatre for Ann Barcomb's plenary. In a previous life Ann worked as a programmer, but she's now a researcher, working towards a PhD in volunteering in the open source community. She gave an engaging talk on episodic or casual contributors, which was both entertaining and thought-provoking: the Q&A session evolved into a discussion between audience members.

We ended the day in the usual fashion -- lightning talks! As ever these were fun, informing, short, and featured from such far-flung places as Japan (Ishigaki-san, seen in the photo here), Germany, Switzerland, and Lancaster.

This year we tried out a few ideas:

We had a lot of talk submissions, and briefly considered adding a fourth track. Instead, we asked quite a few speakers to drop from 50 to 20 minutes. Most of them did, and as a result we fitted in more talks. At the end of the day we polled the attendees, and this was almost unanimously supported as a good change.

We spent a lot more money to try and ensure we have good quality videos of all talks. The proof of this pudding will be in the watching, but we're hoping it will turn out to have been worth it!

We set up email aliases for speakers, volunteers, organisers, and other groups. We tried to make as much clear to everyone ahead of the day itself.

We did a lot more promotion of LPW and the speakers. How did it feel on the receiving end?

As noted above, we had community bakes for one of the breaks.

We produced t-shirts for speakers, volunteers, and organisers. So if you want a coveted LPW shirt, you know what you need to do next year!

There's usually an after-event gathering at a local pub, but this year we had laid on drinks downstairs at the event. As a result a lot of attendees stayed to natter. So much so, that in the end we had to shout at them to make them leave!

Let us know what you thought of these: you can email the organisers (organisers at londonperlworkshop.org) or email us individually.

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Posted London Perl Workshop - talk schedule to lpwtag:blogs.perl.org,2017:/users/lpw//3050.83222017-11-24T10:26:00Z2017-11-24T12:27:55ZWe're excited, and relieved, to have published the talk schedule for the London Perl Workshop. Update: A one-page printable version of the schedule is available now. Moar Update: Matt Trout is ill and won't be there; JJ Allen has stepped...London Perl Workshophttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3050&id=4493
We're excited, and relieved, to have published the talk schedule for the London Perl Workshop.

Abigail is giving a mini tutorial on character classes in regular expressions.

Julien Fiegehenn will show us how teaches programming and Perl to people with little or no experience.

Tools

Ed J will introduce GraphQL (a data query language), and talk about what Perl support is available and coming.

Tina Müller will talk about YAML, when it can be a better choice than JSON, and the CPAN modules available.

Leon Timmermans thinks many of us might be using Dist::Zilla wrong, and he plans to set us straight.

Tom Bloor walks us through the test frameworks he's developed, and the problems they address.

Neil Bowers will give an overview of the recently-published PAUSE Operating Model

Perl 6

Simon Proctor is giving a whistle-stop tour of Perl 6.

Lance Wicks is giving a tutorial on the Bailador web framework.

Sue Spence wrote a website crawler in Perl 6 and Go, and will tell us what she thought.

JJ Merelo will advocate for Perl 6 as a language for teaching complete beginners.

Apps

Mohammad Anwar is going to talk about Map::Tube and friends, and encourage you to write your own.

Salvador Fandiño will show how you can use Win32::Packer to package a Perl application
with all of its dependencies, on Windows.

Operations

JJ Allen will show how he uses Perl with Docker.

Lacey Powers is going to give some tips for using and administering Debian.

JJ Allen will give an overview of GDPR, and some tips for its implementation.

Lightning Talks

These will be compèred by the inimitable Léon Brocard.

Tom Hukins will tell us how we can safely delete code from large codebases

Tina Müller is going to talk about the new YAML::PP module she's been working on

Dave Cross is going to exhort us to engage beyond the Perl echo chamber

Mark Keating wants more of us to get involved with the Englightened Perl Organisation

Kenichi Ishigaki is going to talk about his new code for detecting what modules are used

Paul Johnson will share some Perl optimisation techniques

Chris Jack will be musing about Perl jobs, outsourcing, and contracting

Paul Evans will point out all the things the rest of us got wrong in our slides

If you want to give a quick pitch (conference, hiring, etc) between lightning talks, please talk to Léon on the day.

It's gonna be great!

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Posted Beer and friends from tomorrow evening at the London Perl Workshop to lpwtag:blogs.perl.org,2017:/users/lpw//3050.83242017-11-23T14:18:22Z2017-11-23T14:36:30ZHow exciting! The London Perl Workshop is this Saturday, and as you may or may not know, it's not just London's premier Perl event, it's also London's premier social event! It's not to late to register to attend, for free!...London Perl Workshophttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3050&id=4493
How exciting! The London Perl Workshop is this Saturday, and as you may or may not know, it's not just London's premier Perl event, it's also London's premier social event! It's not to late to register to attend, for free!

Pre-Workshop Drinks

Our generous sponsor WCN are sponsoring a pre-workshop social event, which is a chance to catch up with old friends, make new friends, and hang out drinking beer (or wine, or whatever you want really) around Perl-y people. WCN specialise in providing a cloud-based talent acquisition technology suite and have decades of award-winning recruitment software expertise and an obsession with driving real change in organisations.

Right after the workshop itself (which is on Saturday), we'll be having some drinks at the venue itself. You'll get to hang out with the speakers and other attendees and talk Perl to your heart's content from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Almost certainly the party will continue elsewhere afterwards, but that'll be an ad-hoc effort, as the organisers will be going for some well-earned rest.

More about WCN

WCN are pioneers in recruitment software and have a 100% focus on talent acquisition. We specialise in providing a cloud-based talent acquisition technology suite and have decades of award-winning recruitment software expertise and an obsession with driving real change in organisations. Our products accelerate and improve the entire process of finding, attracting, engaging, assessing and hiring the best talent.

The technical team is 27 in total, based in our London Wimbledon Park office. It’s an experienced team of outstanding experts including infrastructure, Perl, JavaScript, SQL, security and machine learning engineers.

The team builds award-wining e-recruitment software technologies on Linux in an environment where you can have maximum impact within a supportive team. It’s a fairly flat structure allowing the members to genuinely build ground-breaking code and Machine Learning (ML). Home-working 2-3 days a week, depending on cycle of production, is a reality.

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Posted Perl and the Operating System at the London Perl Workshop, 25th of November to lpwtag:blogs.perl.org,2017:/users/lpw//3050.83142017-11-16T02:41:57Z2017-11-16T02:44:56ZOne of the strengths of both Perl -- and our talk schedule -- is a diversity of ideas. We see this in the rich depth of Perl libraries on the CPAN, in the large variety of places Perl is deployed,...London Perl Workshophttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3050&id=4493
One of the strengths of both Perl -- and our talk schedule -- is a diversity of ideas. We see this in the rich depth of Perl libraries on the CPAN, in the large variety of places Perl is deployed, and in the many ways people use Perl to make their lives easier.

This summary is brought to you by our Platinum Sponsor: Eligo. Eligo are a niche recruitment agency with a team of dedicated Perl Consultants, who specialise in and have experience in recruiting Perl Specialists across a wide range of sectors and roles in the UK and beyond.

Perl and the Operating System

Lacey Powers -- better known as Perl's resident Postgres badass -- gives us a tour of "Debian Tips and Tricks", showing us that Debian is a fantastic platform for running your applications, Perl or otherwise, on. The talk will cover some of her favorite tips and tricks to make your life using and administering Debian easier. Debian goodies, unattended upgrades, molly guard, useful non-Debian project repositories, and many others will be covered.

We'll hear about "Packing Perl applications for Windows with Win32::Packer" from Madrid.pm's Salvador Fandiño. Win32::Packer is a new module for packing Perl applications with all their dependencies for Windows as standard MSI installers or portable ZIP archives, and Salvador will introduce the module, make a demo showing how to use it and provide a shallow overview of its internals.

The illustrious Leon Timmermans joins us from Amsterdam to teach us "Lessons learned from using Dist::Zilla". Dist::Zilla is a CPAN authoring tool which makes the build and release cycle much easier. It is a powerful framework, and has a rich collection of plugins available, but all that complexity means it’s not always obvious what the right thing to do is, especially for beginners. In the talk, he'll share some of the lessons he's learned, and give some tips for how to make your life easier with Dist::Zilla.

About Eligo

Eligo are a niche boutique recruitment consultancy with a team of dedicated Perl Consultants. We live and breathe our markets. In fact we like to think we are as passionate about the sector as those who work within it. If you want proof of it stop by and meet Rick Deller one of our Senior Perl Consultants.

Because we understand the market shifts, history and challenges, we are able to provide honest and accurate insight into the market in terms of new entrants to the market, company growth, new products, opportunities, candidate availability, salary surveys, industry standards, competitor information etc.

We are able to find you the right person and/or job whether you are looking for-Permanent, Temporary and Fixed Term Contracts. We specialise in and have experience in recruiting Perl Specialists across a wide range of sectors and roles typically including Junior and Senior Developers, Lead Developers, DevOps, Development Managers and Heads of IT.

Whether you are looking for a role or a candidate in the UK, Europe or US, we can help. Please come to see us at the workshop or get in touch before on 020 8944 4187, Rick@eligo.co.uk, on Twitter via @PerlRick, Eligo technical. Connect with Rick on LinkedIn(http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/rick-deller/24/7a6/7a4).

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Posted Human Perl at the London Perl Workshop November 25th to lpwtag:blogs.perl.org,2017:/users/lpw//3050.83112017-11-13T00:54:15Z2017-11-13T01:25:59ZThere's more to Perl than perl. There are Perl people, there's a smattering of Perl philosophy, and there are many other peculiarities on the Perl periphery. This year's London Perl Workshop will have some great talks on Perl-y subjects that...London Perl Workshophttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3050&id=4493
There's more to Perl than perl. There are Perl people, there's a smattering of Perl philosophy, and there are many other peculiarities on the Perl periphery. This year's London Perl Workshop will have some great talks on Perl-y subjects that don't just focus on the language itself!

This summary is brought to you by one of our sponsors: Adzuna, a search engine for job ads used by over 7 million visitors per month that aims to list every job, everywhere, proudly built in Perl.

Human Perl

Julien Fiegehenn (‎simbabque‎) will tell us how he "[Turns] humans into developers with Perl" -- his methodology for teaching apprentice software developers. He often works with young trainees who start their professional careers with very little to no prior tech knowledge and will cover the social aspects of being a mentor and show process examples that help with long-term motivation.

One of LPM's esteemed former leaders Tom Hukins ask: "Development: More than Writing Code?". The talk will explore some of the things that developers do apart from writing code, and considers how to do those things well.

Jeff Goff (DrForr) has an enigmatic talk schedule on "The Art of Programming", where he threatens to teach us how to create a different kind of art with our existing programming skills. We'll join him and wrestle with a different kind of blank sheet than the ones we're used to staring at all day in our editors. He'll help us transplant our programming skills from Perl to Paper and refactor paper into a whole new world!

About Adzuna

Adzuna is a search engine for job ads used by over 7 million visitors per month that aims to list every job, everywhere. We search thousands of websites so our users don’t have to, bringing together millions of ads in one place. By providing smarter search options and powerful data about the job market, as well as unique tools like ValueMyCV, we give jobseekers the information they need to take control of their careers.

Our data also powers the Number 10 Dashboard, used by the Prime Minister and senior officials to keep track of economic growth on a daily basis.

Adzuna.co.uk was founded in 2011 by Andrew Hunter and Doug Monro, formerly of eBay, Gumtree, Qype and Zoopla and is backed by leading Venture Capital firms Passion Capital, The Accelerator Group and Index Ventures, and recently raised a further £2M from a successful crowdfunding campaign. Adzuna has also been selected to be part of the Government’s Future Fifty programme.

The Adzuna platform is proudly built using Perl and we're always on the lookout for smart developers to join our fantastic team. Please email perl@adzuna.com if you'd like to find out more.

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Posted Shiny New Toys at the London Perl Workshop, Nov 25th to lpwtag:blogs.perl.org,2017:/users/lpw//3050.83052017-11-09T05:03:37Z2017-11-09T05:15:58ZWho doesn't like shiny things? I love shiny things. The London Perl Workshop loves shiny things. CV-Library, this post's sponsor, loves shiny things. So if you come to the London Perl Workshop, Nov 25th, you'll learn about some shiny things....London Perl Workshophttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3050&id=4493
Who doesn't like shiny things? I love shiny things. The London Perl Workshop loves shiny things. CV-Library, this post's sponsor, loves shiny things. So if you come to the London Perl Workshop, Nov 25th, you'll learn about some shiny things.

This summary is brought to you by one of our sponsors: CV-Library. CV-Library is the UK's leading independent job board, developed in Perl and is hiring developers in its London and Fleet offices. CV-Library's technical director is also one of this year's organisers!

Shiny New Toys

The inimitable Ed J (‎mohawk‎) will be talking about his sterling progress in developing "GraphQL in Perl: The Story So Far". GraphQL is the Next Big Thing in implementing APIs, maybe even a successor to REST. Ed has ported the JavaScript reference implementation to Perl, plus written plugins for Dancer 2 and Mojolicious to make it trivial to add a GraphQL endpoint to your web application. He'll also talking about exposing DBIx::Class schemas -- and, more generally, Moose classes -- via GraphQL using introspection.

Dancer 2 is pretty shiny, as is AWS, and wise Mike Whitaker (Penfold) will be talking to us about using AWS's most awesome DynamoDB as a Dancer 2 serialisation backend, serialisation in general, Moo, roles, and other fun things. See: "Dancer2::Session::DynamoDB".

The notorious Matthew Smash Trout (mst) will be talking to us about "Bothead as a service", where he lays out his unifying theory of bots, IRC, and a messaging bridge between them -- as best as I can understand anyway. Probably better to read the abstract than rely on this summary.

It's just over two weeks until the conference, and you would be doing the organisers a gigantic service if you registered your attendance, and invited your colleagues along. It's going to be an awesome day!

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Posted Perl and Testing at the London Perl Workshop, sponsored by Perl Careers to lpwtag:blogs.perl.org,2017:/users/lpw//3050.82992017-11-06T01:19:39Z2017-11-06T01:37:45Z One of the major strengths of Perl is the strong focus on automated testing and the pervasiveness of software testing tools on the CPAN. As you'd expect, London Perl Workshop on the 25th of November will have talks on...London Perl Workshophttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3050&id=4493

One of the major strengths of Perl is the strong focus on automated testing and the pervasiveness of software testing tools on the CPAN. As you'd expect, London Perl Workshop on the 25th of November will have talks on testing!

This summary is brought to you by one of sponsors: Perl Jobs by Perl Careers. Perl Careers is a specialist Perl recruitment consultancy who can help you find your next job, run by a CPAN contributor (and one of the LPW organisers!).

Testing Talks

There's a special treat in a two-hour workshop run by Amsterdam.pm's Martin Berends and London.pm's own John Davies: Perl and Selenium workshop. Selenium is a suite of tools for driving a web-browser and testing the resulting HTML and behaviours of pages, suitable for testing web applications. Martin and John will get workshop attendees setup and ready to drive Selenium from Perl for all their web-testing needs (so bring your laptop!).

Tom Bloor will be giving a 20 minute talk on Testing the waters, sharing his experience building testing frameworks, ideas and methods for testing certain hard-to-test objects and assets, and talk about his CPAN contributions for solving certain testing pain points.

Tangential to testing is spinning up working environments for automated testing and integration, so we're very lucky that JJ Allen will be giving us a talk on Perl and Docker, sitting in a tree. The talk will give you a model for using Perl with Docker, covering layers, container layout, entrypoints, configuration, and a simple method for deploying to live.

About Perl Careers

Would it be great to deal with a recruiter who didn't have the world the wrong way around? Who didn't think recruiters were the normal ones, and that developers were a bit weird? Perl Careers is a recruitment agency run by a long-time Perl developer, LPW speaker, and CPAN contributor. A recruiter who understands that Mojolicious isn't a programming language (despite its nifty DSL), intuitively knows that you don't want to be in an open-plan office next to a sales team, and has former coworkers ready to give you the low-down about what it's really like at the companies that are hiring? Take a look at our Perl Jobs and if you're in the UK, sign-up to get a £5 Amazon voucher every month.

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Posted Ooo! Ahh! The deadline for Lightning Talks for the London Perl Workshop is Monday to lpwtag:blogs.perl.org,2017:/users/lpw//3050.82982017-11-04T21:56:22Z2017-11-04T22:08:28ZFast, often loud, and the finale of the London Perl Workshop, lightning talks share a lot in common with the fireworks lighting up our skies this weekend. The response to the call for longer talk submissions has already been amazing,...London Perl Workshophttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3050&id=4493
Fast, often loud, and the finale of the London Perl Workshop, lightning talks share a lot in common with the fireworks lighting up our skies this weekend.

The response to the call for longer talk submissions has already been amazing, so we’re not going to be able to squeeze in any unscheduled talks this year, but if you didn't submit a full talk proposal in time, you can still participate with a lightning talk!

So, if you have a proposal just waiting to explode (see what I did there? ;) submit it on or before this coming Monday, the 6th November at londonperlworkshop.org/newtalk. And, see our previous post for hints and tips on how to make your 5 minute lightning talk go with a bang!

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Posted LPW: Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! to lpwtag:blogs.perl.org,2017:/users/lpw//3050.82922017-10-31T12:55:30Z2017-10-31T13:18:35ZLast Friday was the deadline for submissons for the London Perl Workshop, and we had originally planned to let all submitters know by Monday. But it turned out that quite a few people were saving their submission for Friday, so...London Perl Workshophttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3050&id=4493
Last Friday was the deadline for submissons for the London Perl Workshop, and we had originally planned to let all submitters know by Monday. But it turned out that quite a few people were saving their submission for Friday, so we're still working on the schedule.

Read on for the gory details.

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As a result, we've ended up with a lot more talk minutes than we can fit in. We briefly considered adding another track, but decided that it would be better for everyone if we keep to the four tracks (3 for talks and 1 for tutorials), and craft the best schedule we can.

Over the next few days we're going to be working on the schedule, and as part of that we'll be getting in touch with some who submitted 50-minute talks, to see whether you'd be ok honing your talk down to 20 minutes.

Our strategy is to maximise the number of different speakers (so one talk per speaker) and diversity of topics, so please bear with us while we craft a line-up. Everyone who submitted a talk proposal will hear back from us, one way or another.

We think it's going to be a great line-up, so if you haven't registered to attend LPW, why not do it now?

It was Mae West who said that "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!", and she wasn't wrong.

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Posted London Perl Workshop: last call for talks - deadline this Friday! to lpwtag:blogs.perl.org,2017:/users/lpw//3050.82862017-10-24T17:51:48Z2017-10-24T17:59:02ZThe clocks go back this weekend and the deadline of Friday 27th October for your LPW talk submissions is fast approaching! As you’ve probably seen from earlier posts, we already have some fantastic speakers and subjects lined up, but there’s...London Perl Workshophttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3050&id=4493
The clocks go back this weekend and the deadline of Friday 27th October for your LPW talk submissions is fast approaching!

As you’ve probably seen from earlier posts, we already have some fantastic speakers and subjects lined up, but there’s room for a few more, so if you have an idea you’ve been musing on, now is the time to tell us about it at londonperlworkshop.org/newtalk

Done is Better Than Perfect. Your proposal doesn’t have to be polished - we are happy to provide guidance and suggestions even if it’s just an idea or an outline. Think MVP (that’s Minimum Viable Proposal ;-), get it in ahead of the weekend and we will help you refine it.

We are looking forward to seeing as many of us as possible sharing our experiences and contributing to our community on Saturday 25th November 2017.

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Posted Not Just Perl - London Perl Workshop 25th November to lpwtag:blogs.perl.org,2017:/users/lpw//3050.82812017-10-23T04:32:49Z2017-10-23T04:38:29ZAs you'd hope, the London Perl Workshop on Nov 25th will feature lots and lots and lots of Perl. But there's also a chance to escape the echo chamber! Former leader of the London Perl Mongers Sue Spence will dive...London Perl Workshophttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3050&id=4493
As you'd hope, the London Perl Workshop on Nov 25th will feature lots and lots and lots of Perl. But there's also a chance to escape the echo chamber!

Former leader of the London Perl Mongers Sue Spence will dive into "Spiders, Gophers & Butterflies", looking at how a concurrent web crawler compares written in Go and in Perl 6

Steven Goodwin show us (tongue in cheek) paradigms from the 16 languages he's worked with professionally which Perl developers may not be familiar with in "Ada 99 - Rewriting the very first computer program".

As a bonus, Dave Cross will be showing us exactly how the echo chamber is escaped in his lightning talk of the same name!

Simon Proctor gives us "Perl 6: A Whistle Stop Tour", aiming to answer the fundamental questions: is this useful? Could I use this in production? Should I use this in production? Why might I want to?

Granada's JMERELO looks into "Perl 6 as a first language". With its use of Unicode, generosity of operators and their combinations, and the amount of baked-in data structures, Juan argues Perl 6 makes an excellent choice for teaching programming and computational thinking, as well as more experienced developers who want to stretch themselves.

Don't want to just sit on the sidelines? Lance Wicks runs an interactive workshop on Bailador, the Perl 6 web framework, covering everything from rakudobrew up to the deployment and hosting of your first Bailador project. The workshop is designed to be beginner friendly: it doesn't matter if you're new to web development, Perl6 or Bailador, there's something for you.

Attendance at the London Perl Workshop is free of charge thanks to the generosity of our sponsors - you can signup and find out more about the conference here: http://londonperlworkshop.org

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Posted Call for Lightning Talks -- London Perl Workshop to lpwtag:blogs.perl.org,2017:/users/lpw//3050.82432017-10-02T22:41:00Z2017-10-02T22:42:20ZThe London Perl Workshop is on Saturday 25th November, and as is traditional, the day will end with Lightning Talks, compèred by the inimitable Léon Brocard. In previous years things have been pretty fluid, with talks being accepted on the...London Perl Workshophttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3050&id=4493
The London Perl Workshop is on Saturday 25th November, and as is traditional, the day will end with Lightning Talks, compèred by the inimitable Léon Brocard. In previous years things have been pretty fluid, with talks being accepted on the day. This year the deadline for Lightning Talk submissions is Monday 6th November, and we'll let prospective speakers know by Friday 10th.

If you've something to say, but not enough for 20 minutes, why not submit a 5 minute lightning talk?

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Posted London Perl Workshop: give a talk to lpwtag:blogs.perl.org,2017:/users/lpw//3050.82222017-09-12T18:21:25Z2017-09-12T18:30:01ZThe London Perl Workshop (LPW) takes place this year on Saturday 25th Nov and you are encouraged to submit your talk proposals now (or if you have already, feel free to submit another!). The informal theme this year is "Perl...London Perl Workshophttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3050&id=4493
The London Perl Workshop (LPW) takes place this year on Saturday 25th Nov and you are encouraged to submit your talk proposals now (or if you have already, feel free to submit another!).

The informal theme this year is "Perl and friends". We welcome proposals relating to Perl 5, Perl 6, other languages, and supporting technologies.

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Talks may be long (45-60 mins) short (15-20 mins) or very short (aka lightening, 5 mins). We would also be pleased to accept proposals for workshops, tutorials and discussions. The deadline for submissions is Fri 27th Oct.

We would really like to have more rookie speakers this year. If you’d like help with a talk proposal, and/or the talk itself, let us know - we’ve got people happy to be your talk buddy!